"Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of His advent. After His incarnation He is present in a similar way not only to those who are still beginners, nourishing them spiritually and leading them toward the maturity of divine perfection, but also to the perfect, secretly pre-delineating in them the features of His future advent as if in an ikon."

-- Maximus the Confessor

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“Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.”
“Black does not signify the darkness related to death or nothingness, but a darkness that combines everything and holds the possibility of creation, a temporary death that embraces rebirth.”

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“There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.”
“The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people.”

Source : "Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.
“It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.”
“There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.”

Source : Interview with Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 8, 2014.
“The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which the veracity of even the straight, unmanipulated photograph has been under attack for a couple of decades.”
“Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although Iâ€™m not a pirate, and sheâ€™s not my captured princess.”

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